BI Reunion

[XBiker]

Anybody check if this was re-upped for 2023?

I miss the searchable dancer review feature, it was sure helpful when in a club & you wanted to consider an investment. Here you can search by name, but you rarely get much besides posts seeking info (rather than providing info) about the name. But you got to go with what's available.

Just check the site is still up and disabled. Everything most likely on auto renewal. I wonder if Domo even knows he still paying for the domain and hosting.

I miss the searchable dancer review too. Best feature of the site.

[PelicanT99]

Just checked the registration info for bonedin.com and saw the following:

Domain Name: BONEDIN.COM.

Updated Date: 2022-01-06 T01:22:13 Z.

Registry Expiry Date: 2023-01-21 T23:11:01 Z.

So it looks like Domo has paid for another year. The update is exactly one year since the last update so I suppose it could be an auto-pay. But I still think it likely that the site isn't dead yet and that they're working on it right now. As always, we'll have to wait and see.

Anybody check if this was re-upped for 2023?

I miss the searchable dancer review feature, it was sure helpful when in a club & you wanted to consider an investment. Here you can search by name, but you rarely get much besides posts seeking info (rather than providing info) about the name. But you got to go with what's available.

[WazzutBone]

Damn. Good seeing some familiar names. But definitely miss the site.

[XBiker]

Checked today; same old sign in then error message.

I believe at least one user scraped the data; don't know what they're doing, maybe studying Lopaw's 600 reviews haha.

Yes, a user did scrape the data, but only the GR section. He was looking to build BI 2. 0, if Domo let the domain expire. Don't what the status off that project is.

I thought BI went to shit when they stopped conditioning participation on contribution of reviews. I wanted info from guys actually in the trenches, not opinions from blowhard keyboard warriors. Then it went off-topic to politics, racism, blah blah blah. I stopped reading the blog entirely. Now there's just (as far as I know) 1) TUSCL (where they discourage any real intel in reviews as "too explicit" and trolls rule), and 2) here. Maybe the good BI contributors will start up with reviews here: I see a couple guys listing GPS names & some rates in the COI strip club thread so good for them.

Domo had plans to move BI to pay subscription model. So, he put a moratorium dumping leeches. He felt they would make good paying members.

As for all the off-topic shits. Lot of people came down hard on CA for his racist comments. Domo step in and said that he was allow to say what ever he wanted under free speech. CA took that as a free pass to troll and he made the best of it. Moderating that mess with one hand tied behind my back was a PITA. It didn't help that Domo went radio silent just after I agree to take over JJ.

[PelicanT99]

Checked today; same old sign in then error message.

I believe at least one user scraped the data; don't know what they're doing, maybe studying Lopaw's 600 reviews haha.

I thought BI went to shit when they stopped conditioning participation on contribution of reviews. I wanted info from guys actually in the trenches, not opinions from blowhard keyboard warriors. Then it went off-topic to politics, racism, blah blah blah. I stopped reading the blog entirely. Now there's just (as far as I know) 1) TUSCL (where they discourage any real intel in reviews as "too explicit" and trolls rule), and 2) here. Maybe the good BI contributors will start up with reviews here: I see a couple guys listing GPS names & some rates in the COI strip club thread so good for them.

[CaseyX]

So tragic. I never met her but she came across as a sincerely lovely person in her BI posts. I couldn't place her until XBiker posted that she had become a personal trainer. Sadly I don't have the faintest memory of what she looked like even though she posted a large number of pics. Was she the dancer who was overweight when she first came to BI, then got into phenomenal shape and was driven by that success to become a personal trainer?

Yep, that's her. I only met her once a month or two before the shutdown. I remember having a wonderful long conversation with her on the floor before we finally got a room. She seemed like a lovely person. Definitely tragic.

[The Camel]

She was a wonderful person. Rest in Peace, Ashley.

She didn't work post COVID. She retired from dancing when the clubs closed, and started working full time as personal trainer.

So tragic. I never met her but she came across as a sincerely lovely person in her BI posts. I couldn't place her until XBiker posted that she had become a personal trainer. Sadly I don't have the faintest memory of what she looked like even though she posted a large number of pics. Was she the dancer who was overweight when she first came to BI, then got into phenomenal shape and was driven by that success to become a personal trainer?

[CaseyX]

Glad to have stumbled on this forum. I'm surprised that no one here has mentioned that the current broken state of BI is likely the result of a hack attack. Just neglecting a site, as it was by its owners for a long time, would not cause the connection errors it currently has. Someone likely hacked the administrative panel login and set it to reject multiple connections. The domain and hosting are still active. Wonder if it was a club or a dancer that put the hit out. Some member with full access should have scraped the site and dumped as an offline file somewhere. Too bad.

That had crossed my mind. Very possible. The site did get hacked a couple years before, right?

OTOH, there was lots of talk on BI blog at the end of last year about the site dying (lots of people thought the IP wouldn't be renewed) and how someone should do just what you are suggesting. I can imagine that Domo could have shut down access in order to prevent someone from scraping. Would make sense to avoid having a competitor site pop up using BI data.

Three months is an awful long time to fix a website, whether after a hack or to do a rebuild for other reasons. Or it would be if there were any financial incentive to do it.

[Roland2418]

Glad to have stumbled on this forum. I'm surprised that no one here has mentioned that the current broken state of BI is likely the result of a hack attack. Just neglecting a site, as it was by its owners for a long time, would not cause the connection errors it currently has. Someone likely hacked the administrative panel login and set it to reject multiple connections. The domain and hosting are still active. Wonder if it was a club or a dancer that put the hit out. Some member with full access should have scraped the site and dumped as an offline file somewhere. Too bad.

[Kahunas007]

I just found out that "Ashley" from Paradise and Bliss has passed away. I don't believe that she had worked post covid, in fact I believe she retired after the clubs were forced to shut down. Nonetheless she was a BI favorite. Just thought I'd pass along the unfortunate news. May she RIP.

Does anyone know what happened?

[XBiker]

I just found out that "Ashley" from Paradise and Bliss has passed away.

She was a wonderful person. Rest in Peace, Ashley.

I don't believe that she had worked post covid, in fact I believe she retired after the clubs were forced to shut down.

She didn't work post COVID. She retired from dancing when the clubs closed, and started working full time as personal trainer.

[DodgerK]

Sadly it's true.

I just got the word tonight, very sad indeed. She was a wonderful woman and a nice smile that I will never forget.

[Rot9020]

Sadly it's true.

Very sad, RIP.

[Lowk1]

Sadly it's true.

[SelectaH87]

I just found out that "Ashley" from Paradise and Bliss has passed away. I don't believe that she had worked post covid, in fact I believe she retired after the clubs were forced to shut down. Nonetheless she was a BI favorite. Just thought I'd pass along the unfortunate news. May she RIP.

I hope this is not true. She just had a baby during Covid and had two other kids. She was actually a really cool person and pretty damn good personal trainer.